The Pod People is kind of like a movie shake, as if someone took three entirely different movies (or is it five?), and threw them into a blender. The first part is about a couple of hunters stumbling around in the fog and not shooting any of the deer they see; the second part is about a lame rock band going camping in the same foggy woods; the third part is about a strange kid called Tommy, who keeps a veritable zoo in his bedroom.Eventually one of the rock band comes across the hunters and gets hurt, so the gang take her to house where Tommy lives with his mom and uncle where they spend most of the time discussing how to get help. Parallel to this story, Tommy has found an egg that hatches into an elephant faced alien creature that makes toys levitate and what not. Meanwhile the hunters have come across another elephant snout alien, but this one is less benevolent, and starts killing people. So we have tree stories going on at the same time, one E.T. type "friendly (seriously creepy looking) alien and kid" story, one "teenagers stuck in the woods" type thing and one "hunters become the hunted" monster flick. It all sort of comes together in the end, with the teenagers and Tommys drunk uncle going to kill the alien, while Tommy is trying to protect his pet.What I'm trying to get across here is that its all very, very confusing, and the tone and feel of the whole thing gets very muddled. Questions like, "what is going on?" and "what movie are we in?" kept popping up in my head throughout. That most of the movie is shot in a thick cloud of fog, and the lack of distinction between day and night, winter or summer doesn't exactly help either.

I just finished watching The Extraterrestrial Visitors from director Juan Piquer Simon who made the great slasher flick Pieces. I got this little obscure sci-fi film from a Mill Creek Entertainment box set i just purchased, titled, Sci-Fi Invasion 50 movie pack....which by the way makes it worth every penny for b-movie film buffs on a budget..lol...sometimes the only way to get to see these movies...and cheaply. Anyways, i popped the disc into the DVD player and as soon as i saw the director's name appear on the credits, i knew i was in for a treat...I loved the horror film Pieces, one of my all time favorites! Now, Juan Piquer Simon delves into the sci-fi genre this time, and despite all the bad reviews on here, i actually enjoyed this little film. Now, it is a low budget b-movie! do not expect a Hollywood blockbuster here. If you like that kind of stuff great! it is bad, bad dubbing and laughable at times, but i really liked the beginning with the eerie atmosphere....really starts off like a horror film. it has a bad alien that kills people and a good alien...this is more like a kids movie at that point, but only briefly as it always continues with the killer alien...So, i liked the atmosphere throughout the whole film...not a bad chiller. Overall, i had a lot of fun!

*Spoiler/plot- - 1983, Pod People, A self-absorbed pet-loving only child finds a alien's egg nest hidden in the forest and adopts a embryo. The embryo hatches. All the while vacationing swingers get caught in the drama all around them occurring in the same forest vacation location where the boy lives. Some 'slap and tickle' sexual matters occur. Some forest poachers try to capture the alien at their own peril. One by one they are murdered by an alien looking for those humans who disturbed her nest. *Special Stars- Hugo Atral, William Anton, Ocsar Martin, Frank Branana.*Theme- With motherly love, anything can happen in the smoky mountains. *Based on- Folklore*Trivia/location/goofs- Spanish. Maybe better called "Tales of Trumphy", Film was made by French?Spanish production company. The overuse of smoke or 'diffusion' machines in all the forest scenes is spotty at best. It's diffusion overuse ruins this story. The weird alien menace was changed to a lovable alien to try and cash in on the 'E.T.' craze. Was this film is the basis for the Ridley Scott 'Alien' genre films? Not 'E.T.'*Emotion- This is an enjoyable stinker of a film featuring 'Trumphy'. Not only does this film have space aliens, but it is made in a foreign country and dubbed. Those many combinations gives you hours of corny fun.

Pod People??? Humnnnnnn. Well, if Pat and Chris from Saturday Night Live-fame had a child, it would resemble Pod People's little femme boy waif, Tommy... a bug collecting, perky little blonde he/she that spends too much time to itself... of whom finds itself more comfortable with circa 1970's shag-carpeted, peanut-snorting, karate chopping aliens, rather than his alcohol-soaked uncle (I think) and his Bonnie Frankin (One Day at a Time TV series) haired mother. And how about that rock band? Let's hear it for the "Loverboy" look of love... leg warmers, headbands, Toni-Perms and snappy dialog. "Hear the Engines Roll Now", their claim to fame sounded to me like... "Idiots in Trona" (If you knew what & where Trona is, you would completely understand). The fog scenes were really well done. I highly recommend that wonderful little movie off that had been passed on as being "written". Definitely... "Must See TV"